air strike
noun
: an attack in which military airplanes drop bombs
The strategy calls for air strikes on key targets.
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Another air strike flattened a residential building in the Bureij refugee camp, killing at least nine.
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Ayesha Khan, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Palestinian group Hamas said on Friday the remains of Shiri Bibas appear to have been mixed with other human remains from the rubble after an Israeli air strike hit the place she was held in.
—Reuters, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
In a segment last summer, Magal announced that an Israeli air strike had killed a top Hamas commander.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Pang started scheming in the summer of 2021, describing the plan as a revenge plot for the U.S. air strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in January 2020.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
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Ayesha Khan, The New Yorker, 17 Mar. 2025
Palestinian group Hamas said on Friday the remains of Shiri Bibas appear to have been mixed with other human remains from the rubble after an Israeli air strike hit the place she was held in.
—Reuters, USA TODAY, 22 Feb. 2025
In a segment last summer, Magal announced that an Israeli air strike had killed a top Hamas commander.
—Ruth Margalit, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Pang started scheming in the summer of 2021, describing the plan as a revenge plot for the U.S. air strike that killed Iranian general Qasem Soleimani in January 2020.
—Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 27 Feb. 2025
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“Air strike.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/air%20strike. Accessed 5 May. 2025.
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